04 Jun 2002

Mardi Gras Festival Adds Food and New Bands

By Jeff Ignatius
Even though it's the second-oldest festival in The District of Rock Island - it's now in its 10th year - Gumbo Ya Ya is still serving up new things as it brings a belated Mardi Gras to the Quad Cities. The most notable addition this year will be a lot more food.
21 May 2002

Preserving Davenport's "Shooting Park"

By Robert Jackson Jr.
It's pretty amazing that a central-city natural area that was largely abandoned to the vagaries of the free market for more than seven decades has survived by accident. But that's the story of Schuetzen Park, located south and west of the Fejervary Park on Davenport's near west side.
21 May 2002

Sculpture on 2nd

By Todd McGreevy
Back in 1996, MidCoast Fine Arts exported its "art-in-the-empty-storefronts" model from the Rock Island District to downtown Davenport with the Art Under Glass program. Rotating juried exhibits of local and regional art have filled the empty storefronts of the Redstone and the Parker buildings on 2nd Street ever since.
14 May 2002

Fighting for the Right

By Jeff Ignatius
Deep down, Bill Salier argues, nearly everybody's a conservative. You might claim to be a Democrat or a moderate, but really, on the issues that matter, you're a conservative, believing in "individual accountability, self-reliance, and self-sufficiency," to quote one of his brochures.
14 May 2002

Hornucopia Builds on Identity with Powerful Lineup

By Jeff Ignatius
After three years, Hornucopia might finally be done answering the question: What kind of music is it again? "We spent the first couple of years explaining what it was," said Jennifer Fowler, executive director of The District of Rock Island.
07 May 2002

New Agriculture Bill Shorts the Family Farmer

By Jeff Ignatius
Legislation that sets federal agriculture policy for the next six years is close to becoming law, and large agricultural producers will gain even more advantages over the small family farmer because of it. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the 2002 Farm Bill on Wednesday, May 8, and it's expected to pass, according to Seth Boffeli, a spokesperson for Senate Agriculture Committee Chairperson Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
07 May 2002

Rock Island Leaders Look to Tell the City's Stories

By Administrator
The inventor of the modern computer and the Blues Brothers are among the figures that could be memorialized through public art as part of a capital-improvement project over the next few years on and near the Great River Plaza of Rock Island.
30 Apr 2002

Debating Death

By Jeff Ignatius
Too often in Illinois, police and prosecutors have seemed hell-bent on convictions - not justice - when it comes to serious crimes. "Too often" is once if it means the death penalty, but at least 13 times the state has sent somebody to death row who was later discovered to be innocent.
30 Apr 2002

Major Recommendations of the Commission on Capital Punishment

By No Author
In its report, the Commission on Capital Punishment condensed its recommendations into a summary of 10 items. These are taken from the report's preamble. • We recommend videotaping all questioning of a capital suspect conducted in a police facility, and repeating on tape, in the presence of the prospective defendant, any of his statements alleged to have been made elsewhere.
23 Apr 2002

Tied in Knots About Tying the Knot

By Jeff Ignatius
In opening her presentation at a Quad Cities appearance on April 12, Maggie Gallagher explained what the "Marriage Movement" is not. Gallagher, an affiliate scholar with the Institute for American Values, said the Marriage Movement is not a polarizing political issue or a set of political initiatives.

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